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OUR fll^GOriHXjTS, PAGE 

Preface, ------ 2 

Our School of Art, - - - 3 

Our Alphabet, - - - - - 4 

Our Bible, ----- q 

Our Homer, - - - - - 10 

Our Pyramid, - - - - 12 

Our Ancient Poetry, - - - - 15 

The Death of Slavery, - - - 18 
Intuition, --..--19 

Charming Glady's, - - - - 20 




THE PREFACE. .7, 5^ U ^ 



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First on the field of literature 
Where thorns and briai's now mature 

Let flame be spread; 
Then fallow plow with shining share 
And root, and subsoil, turn to air 

Till all be dead. 

When winters storms and frosts are past, 
The seed in sweetened soil then cast, 

And harrow well, 
Then pray moist Spring and Summer lair, 
And harvest skies be clear, and rare, 

The yield will tell. 



O'er all the plain the temples seen. 
The " tablet" stones, arranged between ; 

On Sar — urn's plain ; 
Here man's divinity was grown 
The form divine was first made known, 

The stones explain. 

In Abris' temple worlds are shown, 
Here all the Heavenly hosts were grown, 

Those wonders there ? 
The moulded form, that graces all. 
The " order beautifuls " own law, 

None can compare. 



Let's view with pride man's progress here 
All the hard scenes of doubt and tear; 

That lab'ring past. 
Let's see the present if we can. 
The future view for coming man 

It may not last. 



OUR SCHOOL OF ART. 

The skillful hands, can do a will, 
Whence comes the will to hands of skill? 

From self proceed ? 
The workshop is the Universe. 
Its rules are wrote in living vei'se, 

.So all can read. 

This is the mighty school of art ! 
Simple and plain in every part : 

Tuition's free I 
The appliances you also find, 
You need to furnish only mind, 
* And willing be. 

Age, nor condition, are required, 
Nor wealth, nor station, are admired, 

You laborer be ; 
Self is the classics there you'll find. 
And c<miplicated is its kind. 

All do agree. 

You first observe — the first degree — 
For facts are stubborn things you see — 

Observe and see ; 
Its varied forms, you there can find ; 
And workshop models for a mind ; 

Both you and me. 

Let's enter then, and try and find 
What's named the classics of the mind ; 

Professors skill; 
Experience high degree our aim, 
A small experience our first claim. 

Subjecting will. 

Invention 's skill and thought combined. 
The working of the hand and mind, 

In pleased accord; 
This partnership of skill and thought, 
Has all the world's find wonders wrought ; 

So much adored. 



Who took a thought with soul sublime 
And clothed it in this clay of time? 

Both your.s and mine I 
Who planted liere a germ to grow ? 
Eternal germ? Who told us so? 

Is it Divine? 



OUR ALPHABET. 

So many liug'ring thoughts and words, 
Their cutting arguments are swords, 

That carve the way ! 
Their letters are our whetstones now. 
These to the Gothic name must bow, 

To this our day. 

Our minister's we love, revere, 

So shepherd kings of old were dear, 

Those kings sublime I 
The shepherds of the Heavenly plain. 
Their liocks were all the starry main, 

In olden time. 

I see a nionument to-day 

Of noble faith and christian sway ; 

They freely do ; 
Celestial sphere — in yonder time 
A pyramid I — a faith sublime. 

Who built so true? 

Heed not the words of hate and scorn 
Of jealousy — (by vices born) 

— A pyramid — 
Sacred they stood and still remain, 
Faith is their cause— their noble claim — 

So proved they did. 

The Pharaoh's on proud Egypt's throne, 
No king nor throne — they all must own,— 

Their ancient cast : 
The sign of knowledge thus was born, 
A leafy necklace always worn, 

From tirst to last. 



The brazen pillars Hiram cast 

" Jachin and Boaz " — first and last , 

In temple stand ; 
These mighty marks, with sacred care 
An alphabet thus quoted there, 

So old and grand. 
'Twas West the artist promptly said 
Aiiollo was an Indian bred, 

America. 
And customs, forms, and ancient ways, 
Remind us now of Indian plays 

In this our day. 

Anthems and glory all unbound, 
Garlands and incense floating 'round. 

Reviving us ; 
Nations and races yet to l)e, 
Empires in heavenly harmony, 

Surviving us. 

There is the battle field in view ! 
Our fighting force by ages grew ; 

Their ages grew ; 
The spear, the sword, the gun, the bow, 
The thrust, the cut, the shot, all show 

Less hate, less foe. 

The hosts, the hosts, that willing fight, 
— Increasing numbers claim the right — 

The right to fight, 
Slaughter and wound and woe and death 
Are vanishing with every breath, 

In doing right. 

There Asta's sacred fires light up 
The liearth, — law and devotion sup — 

Hephcesto's fire ! 
Our schools and churches now the same — 
Intelligence — be still tbeir aim — 

Athenian lyre. 

From right to left, then left to right, 
This was the oldest way to write, 

Our good old way ; 
Geo. "Washington's first survey show 
Our sectioned townships numbered so ; 

None can gainsay. 



OUR BIBLE. 

Oh, nobly sweet Don Jorj;e Miinriqiie, 
'Tis (loiitliless lil« thy soul would seek 

To never die ; 
To wing thy pinions on the way 
Thy thought to latest time may stay 

A song on high. 

Our lives are rivi-rs gliding free, 
To that unlathomed, boundless sea, 

And widening space ! 
IIow soon this life is i)ast and gone ! 
And death conies swiftly stealiugon, 

AVe all nmst face. 

Oh let the soul her slumbers break, 
Let thought be quickened and awake 

For life, for aye, 
A life of honor and of worth 
Has an eternity on earth, 

To ever stay. 

The n«)ble blood of (iothic name. 
Heroes embla/.oiied higli in fame — 

111 eireliug ray I 
We see them now, as stars they shine, 
Higli o'er head in glorious lino. 

To last for aye. 

Thus, in the onward course of time, 
Tlie grandeur of that laee sublime, 

Hrooks no delay, 
And brighter to the perlect day 
Increase their glory and array, 

Jjet's speed their day. 

The Zodiac was their road to fame! 
They gave the Constellations name ! 

Orion saw ! 
The Pleiads, Hyads, all the train; 
The (Jalaxy and heavenly main ; 

Tlieir knowledge all. 



Those be thy own iiispiriug Kloaius, 

But ancient thouglit: your Gothic themes 

Arc hiys more wortli ; 
Were not in earthly conquests shown, 
They made Ihc tlidught of lieaven their own, 

iirouglit down to c;irth. 
The form divine, an image fair, 
With patient thought and willing care 

They thought ahout ; 
Th' Immortal Artist, by bis will, 
Oil wondroua Art ! Divincst skill ! 

Had wrought it out. 
What marbled form, in Grecian days 
Can match the skill of (iotiiic ways? 

The form Divine! 
The shadow to the substance be, 
Thus Gothic thought surpassing see. 

The (irecian line. 

This is the theme in after days, 
Exalting thought, and nobler ways, 

J{y Moses shown : 
Beware of Images of stone, 
Nor worship works that are thy own, 

Ko Hellish gr(»wu. 

E'en this, your lay, my sweetest Jorge, 
Is from their mind and mighty forge, 

Dithrambic lay. 
Thanks to your softer, smoother lines. 
Your wrai)t, inspiring, hai)pier signs 

For nobler day. 
To hear your elder brother sing, 
Let Red Sea's crossing memory i)ring 

And chorus hear ; 
Then Deborah by mighty aid 
Swept Midian hosts with stormy blade 

And song of cheer. 

When I'^arth wilii heaven-born race would copo, 

A Holifernes brutal hope ! 
A Judith's ken. 

In polislied robes, by light insi)ired — 

The Medo-1'ersian leader fi red- 
She slew him then. 



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But who then bore the Gothic name? 
Children of many a clime and plain 

In olden time I 
Iberian days, were Gothic lays, 
Their ancestors were knights of praise 

Who were sublime. 

The title-forms, our homes secure, 
The covenants, acknowledged, sure, 

Or Deed, or Will, 
For model for all these will show 
'Twas Noah's Covenant and Bow 

We copy still. 

These blessings flow from hand to hand, 
Securing life, and home, and land, 

Ennobling day. 
A change from nomad life is shown 
And settled life is fully known, 

Had come to say. 

This Grand Old Book ! This Legal Deed ! 
Man's title for his utmo^t need, 

Its blessings grow : 
Commencing with a deed so kind, 
The present with the past can bind. 

And onward flow. 

See Storms I o'ewhelming stoi'ms arise ! 
It is a thought that gives surprise, 

With awe, with fear ; 
The record there is noted well, 
This great discovery can tell. 

It made our year. 

People and Tongues I All Nations see I 
It is the World's philology, 

It briefly shows : 
The more we search the more we find, 
This is the Record of mankind, 

And brighter grows. 

"Servant of Servants," bowing down, 
" Servant " looks on, while terrors frown 

At Magic sight ; 
The Queen of precious stones and gold. 
Could then in fear and fright behold, 

Th' Electric Light. 



How faithful is the word on high, 
There Shem and Servant Ham reply, 

To .Taphet bow. 
'Tis Science is the lord of all, 
And homage claims fi'om great and small, 

Yes, even now. 
On to the battle, brave and strong! 
Oh armlefss knight, the battle's long ! 

Intelligent ; 
Babel's power must fall away! 
'Tis Public Thought the List's survey 

With good intent. 

The Corjioration's death to thought. 
Nor wants but sycophant that's bought, 

A drudge and knave ; 
The Corporation has no soul, 
Home's legal sell and brutal whole 

To all enslave. 

In Terah's Halls in Chaldees Land, 
The Noble Abram takes his stand 

Against the Deed ! 
Those horrors fill the land with woe, 
'Tis human sacrifice must go. 

His faith will lead. 

The Pilgrims follow in the throng. 
Grand emigrant ! defying wrong! 

By faith you save ; 
And millions' slaves in freedom stand, . 
A Nation's blessings they command, 

A. LINCOLN gave. 
And here's a thought personified, 
The Whale and Jonah— now denied — 

'Tis ignotauce — 
A ship, at sea — with doubt for sail, 
And doubt the tempest eating whale. 

With compass chance. 

These yolks of truth in shells sub'ime. 
Are hatching out with setting time. 

It is the way ; 
There's many a truih we can't define 
Enclosed in eggs of thought divine 

In this our day. 



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Such is the truth, and such we find 
The written record of mankind, 

In Bible found, 
Their OLDEST THOUGHT, we find is true, 
We shine it up and then renew 

In plant and ground. 



OUR HOMER. 

Insi)iring theme is key to thought, 
And Inspiration thought has wrought. 

Inventor's School I 
The Scribe and Book for every clime. 
The Library of space and time; 

An Artist's rule. 

He saw and said, you see and say ; 
He told old thought a nobler way 

Than said before. 
As he could do for ages past. 
Do for our age, to likewise last, 

A nobler lore. 

'Tis heaven is always near and kind 
To loan her graces to mankind, 

The high degree ; 
She free bestows on patient mind, 
And asks like favors for mankind, 

To gena'ous be. 

Oh, child of poverty and care. 

The poet's workshop you can share; 

Invention too; 
AVhen genius comes she visits you, 
She has no other friend so true, 

Loves none but you. 

Thus Homer all your griefs could share ; 
He blest the world for poorest fare. 

The song sublime ; 
He brought it down from heaven above. 
And wrote for all mankind to love 

For longest time. 



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I cannot tell the way he went, 
How many years of life he spent 

In traveling there; 
His modesty is shown so well, 
He never left a word to tell 

Of fears or fare. 

I'm told the mazy road is plain, 

And marked by links that make a chain— 

The golden chain ; 
And Homer for his day and lay, 
Says Gravitation was the way. 

This will explain. 

He made their gods stand sentinel, 
And all their goddesses as well. 

And ways prepare; 
There, faith and hoi)C, he made to shine, 
And polished them with thought so fine. 

We now can share. 

A nation's writers write her will, 
And Pope thus murder Homer's skill. 

With great applause; 
Our Bryant's gifted tongue and pen 
Can speak old Homer's thought again, 

Our voice and cause. 

The blossoms putting forth in spring 
Fair promises to autumn sing. 

And fruit, as fair. 
The glitt'ring fetes and battle fields. 
In Homer's song a nation yields, 

The harvest there. 

Miss Jealousy was born of Fear, 
And so was Dread her sister dear, 

Hope never knew ; 
These maids could drive aAvay their beaux 
To live alone, to love their woes ; 

A woeful view. 



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OUR PYRAMID. 

Know " Self" the sign the temple bore, 

"Thy self", Greek, thought expressed it more, 

Maker and plan ; 
This riddle on the temple wrote 
For all mankind to learn and quote, 

Explain who can. 

The form of beauty to define, 
" Self" its author is Divine, 

The riddles read ; 
In Universe the Temple see. 
The temple man's expression be 
The light to shed. 

The world was made by thought Divine, 
And here is shown by "line on line" 

We must confess; 
A sectioned tigure, be the I'ule, 
Measure, number, weight the school, 

It can express. 

Some think it is Geometry, 

And all its forms of thought display — 

Old Euclid's own ; 
Angle and square and cube and cone, 
May be these forms are all there shown. 

Engraved in stone. 

If Science spoke a Pyramid, 
None builded better than she did. 

Her proudest day ; 
And Art her science here could show. 
And Earth her strength could here bestow, 

To last for aye. 

A crystal, thought to Science' praise, 
All beauties form, with beauties rays ; 

Who can define? 
The earth-born thought, the precious gem, 
A mirrored thought and diadem, 

The thought Divine. 



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Some think this world is standing still, 
Steadfast in form, by Maker's will 

Ordained, we see ; 
The Pyramid might live to show 
By "line on line" the earth can grow, 

By Heaven's decree. 

Our lives have purposes in view, 
A thought Divine, we hope is true; 

Our Pyramid 
Is, doing good, "Judge not" , you know 
Their ancient thought ; they thus may show, 

A beauty hid. 

Experience the lock must be, 
Intelligence would then be key ; 

The lock and key ; 
Inspiring thouglit of tongue or pen. 
The grand old inspiration, then 

You there would see. 
Away with blind astrology ; 
The Pyramid couid always say : 

" True laws I see : 
That can't be bought, nor can't be sold, 
But may be thought, and may be told. 

This is my pica." 

The Corn of I^gypt's growing still, 
Their grain is being sent to mill. 

We eat and thrive ; 
The parent thought from parent hive. 
From times remote kept Thebes alive. 

And thus survive. 

lu space and lime the ^Elher grew. 
These are the thoughts that now are new. 

The spirit's clew ! 
Condensing thought, we know the way, 
We put in practice every day, 

We can renew ! 

From ^ther, fluid, solid, be 
The firmament ordained ; we see 

Our earth and clay ; 
The light of time; the light divine, 
The void and darkness could refine ; 

Creations way. 



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Some laws, may-be, are not yet shown, 
And some we know, not fully known. 

Our thonght we know ; 
Th' Electric Light and Steam do show 
Our thought in speed and light can grow, 

Can onward flow. 

Their seeds of thought, in olden time 
They sowed with faith and hope sublime, 

The good old way ; 
Our harvest fields their sowing yields. 
We reap and sow again new fields 
For future day. 

Behold Creation's grand design 
The grand vocation — work — combine, 

The stream benign ! 
How linked with like is every kind, 
In gravitation, all, we find 

The rule and sign. 

What simpler form could we propose, 
*' Like begets like " in all it shows. 

We know the rule ; 
It is our form that here was shown. 
We copied it, we now must own. 

From law's own school. 

This " law's own school " by Science bound, 
Science Divine, the most profound. 

We under stand ; 
There are the laws for everj'good. 
They are approved uhen vnderstood. 

They can command. 

And thus the noble deeds flow on. 
We all are helping them upon 

" The golden chain '* ; 
Attraction is their sweetest song. 
Which gravitation moves along ; 

" This will explain." 



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OUR ANCIENT POETRY. 

Number and measure, only know : 
SOLIS confirms in Mexico; 

"Tis strange, but true ; 
And measure, then number, then weight ; 
We are confused, we so can state 

The way they grew. 

The sun's own cycle, planets too, 
With measure, number, also grew, 

Were understood ; 
The constellations sure were known, 
And in their place were fixed and shown, 

Before the Flood. 

Here let us draw the parting line, 
Each Continent can then define, 

And progress show ; 
These are the oldest marks descried 
Which Alphabet and Compass tied, 

'Tis all we know. 

The Moon's own Cycle first we find. 
To Europe's great Inventing mind, 

The Nineteen years ; 
They stamped it on their thought when new ; 
Specific Gravity they grew, 

With pride appears: 

Dividing, S. G. weight was told — 
This number, gave to S. G.'s gold — 

Pure gold displays ; 
From Nineteen stamped on precious gold, 
A " golden number " we behold ; 

Then Troy's own weighs. 

Conflicting thought, conflicting stand, 
Blind mysteries theirs can command ; 

Our light can shine, 
Illuming page, in heaven see, 
To open heaven its progress be. 

The light divine. 



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The Grand old Books, the Psalms and Job, 
Their anthems roll around the globe, 

In notes sublime ; 
No verse can with tlieir verse compare, 
Diviucst thoughts are written there. 

For longest time. 

Here prose and poetry had birth, 

And graced with all the charms of worth, 

So brief, so true ; 
The Crystal gems of purest ray, 
All beauties thought they can display, 

And ever new. 

Rapture and praises flowing on, 
All the glad words' ennobling song; 

Mercy and Truth, 
And peace and joy, thev all remain 
That rob our ills and feel our pain. 

In age or youth. 

All men of thought due homage pay, 
These OLDEST, grandest, words to-day, 

With love for all ; 
All nature's glory thiy display, 
And gently teach the heavenly way. 

To great and small. 

'Tis wisdom here we first shall find. 
That sweet intelligence of mind, 

To all so dear ; 
'Tis here all gentleness and worth, 
And grace and kindness had their birth, 

Here first appear. 

Here all the words of love and truth, 
Those words of aid to age and youth, 

Are marshalled here ; 
We feel them in the fiery strife, 
And read them on the page of life. 

To win and cheer. 

Here patience first her flag unfurled, 
The emblem of a waiting world, 

And raised it high ; 
The graces lead the hosts along, 
Their virtues animating throng 

To do or die. 



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New forms of truth their hopes display, 
They teach and preach, to show the way 

Nearer to be ; 
Thus ouward in the course of tiine 
Their Faiths are Generals sublime, 

All truths to see. 

The heaven-born race — thanks. Homer, dear- 
One blood, one ijoople, made so near — 

The human race ; 
OnAvard and upward, Victory, 
Anthems and garlands crown the way 

In every place. 

No cunning fables crown your lay, 
Truth brighter stands, the life, the way, 

At first divine ; 
Its pathwaj^ is the road of time, 
And ages are its land and clime, 

To brighter shine. 

Young Solomon, with wisdom's zeal. 
Could jo'ii- great words so fitly seal, 

In Cycle's time ; 
How each division might be known. 
And each in place, and time be shown, 

In words sublime. 

Inventing youth, your deed will last. 
And name grow on as years are past. 

The brightest name ; 
You framed this temple in your thought. 
Nor hammer heard the temple wrought, 

The world can claim. 

The root, the stem, the flower, the fruit, 
The way, the race, there's no dispute ; 

The age, the time. 
The constellations mark so well. 
And Pyramids as well can tell 

The work, the clime. 



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THE DEATH OF SLAVERY. 



See them march in grand array — 
Boastful, confident are they — 
Feudal lord, with feudal sicay, 
Slaves in chains their boast to-day. 

See advance wiihout dismay, 
Vau'/iting, sicaggering are they, 
Tear the flag, to freedom bound; 
Cursing.' Trail it on the ground. 

See in arms, in proud array! 
Hear the guns on Sumter play! 
' Tis Secession, in its might! 
Who will with Secession fightf 



See yon hardy pioneer, 
Never knew he dread or fear; 
Peaceful men, in peaceful ways, 
Schools and churches be their praise. 

Art and induj<try arise, 
Farms and cities be the prize ; 
Forests fail and prairies bloom, 
Axe and plow the weaving loom. 

Flag of freedom waving high, 
Sire and son united cry : 
" With its freedom let it wave, 
Cherished by the true and brave." 

See it float on " Bunker Hill," 
" Monmouth," " Trenton," floating still, 
" Valley Forge," a pray'r on high : 
" Freedom's born to never dife." 



Sumter's guns ! They echo, thrill ; 
Northern schools and churches fill. 
Peaceful scenes are fled away 
Arms I and arms alone, the day. 



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Son and sire are volunteers, 
Freedom's flag they wet with tears, 
Not of dread or slavish fear, 
But for brothers they held dear. 



Traitor! Art and skill can fight, 
Fight for freedom and the right. 
P)-eedom can her sons inspire: 
Melt your feudal chains ivithfire. 



INTUITION. 

A little laughter now and then 
Is relished by sweet woman, when 
With intuition's guileless pen 
She smiles a joke on reasoning men. 

Who would not bask in woman's smiles 
Those tender, dearest, loving wiles, 
Unasked they come, so fair, so kind, 
'Tis bliss for reason to be blind. 

Poor, reasoning man I who stoops to kiss. 
And feels the smiles — the charming bliss- 
Once let cold reason, but assert. 
Those smiles and charms at once desert. 

My charming friend not yours I fear, — 
I never think such wiles are near, — 
Your intuition's Heaven's own way; 
There bliss begins and man should stay. 

'Tis when those two are well combined 
We see both grace and art of mind, — 
True genius and invention, know — 
Thus all of thought combined could grow. 

Now Intuition, woman's mind. 
In spite of all our reasons find 
Is not a thought we can define. 
It always was, the will Divine. 



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CHARMING CLADY'S. 



Once in Wales a little girl — 
Charming daughter of an Earl — 
Great Llewellyan was his name, 
Cimri's glory, all his claim. 

Who could think so small as she 
Would to fame and majestie? 
Blood will tell, if courage flow. 
Deeds are seeds, when planted grow. 

Little Glady's, was this lass, 
Famous for her state and class 
Mortimer her hand would choose,. 
Famous Lord ! Who could refuse? 



All the fame of British kings — 
Bard of Wales in rapture sings — 
Owe to Glady's, all their worth •, 
British blood of Cimric birth. 

Cimri were old Gomers' sons. 
So were Celt Semetic ones ; 
Thus to Japhet you can see, 
Gladys a descendant be. 

Japhet elder, he was called. 
All his sous will now applaud, 
British kiugs to Noah runs, 
Mighty sire, and noble sons. 

All the truth io " Brit" is seen, 
Separated— floods between — 
From America— declare — 
Sailor Noah, landed there. 



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